Date: 1713, 1719
"Try the blest Change, and quit your Gown / To share the Pleasures of the Poor; / There free from Pomp and Equipage, carouse, / Unlade your Mind of Business, and unbend your Brows."
preview | full record— Oldisworth, William (1680-1734)
Date: 1713
"[I]mpetuous Passions" may "toss the Soul, /And Tides of boiling Blood reluctant roll."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1713
"Imperial Reason keeps her awful Throne, / Above the Tumult reigns unmov'd alone: / At her Command intestine Discords cease, / And all th' inferiour Pow'rs lie hush'd in Peace."
preview | full record— Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747)
Date: 1713
"The cautious Virgin, ignorant of Man, / No Glances threw, nor exercis'd the Fan, / Found Love a Stranger to her easie Breast, / And 'till the Wedding Night--enjoy'd her Rest."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713
"But just arriv'd--Absence, Mrs. Busie, has not been able to deface the Impressions of Love,--and still the Lady Myrtilla reigns in my Bosom, haunts my waking Thoughts, and is ever present in my Dreams."
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713
"What think you, old Heart of Oak, shall Experience supply the want of Youth?"
preview | full record— Gay, John (1685-1732)
Date: 1713
"Since we have made this Breach in her Heart, my Lad, there is now no fear of gaining the Citadel."
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Date: 1713
"Fair Lady, show your self a generous Conqueror; and since I am taken Captive by your Charms, and bound in the Golden Chains of your Beauty, throw me not into the Dungeon of Disdain, but rather confine me in the pleasing Mansions of your Bosom; where my Heart will glory in its Captivity, and desp...
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Date: 1713
"My Memory is pretty well stocked with Terms of Art, and I can talk unintelligibly."
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Date: 1713
"Are Ladies Hearts more hard than Stone, / Are Wolves and Bears less fierce?"
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